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[–] remus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Lots of stuff! Currently running almost all of these in Docker on a Synology NAS:

  • Code Server - access my notes files remotely
  • Gitea - only used to store notes that are edited in Obsidian (or Code Server as mentioned above)
  • Home Assistant - home automation
  • Homebridge - used for one or two devices that have better integrations than natively in Home Assistant
  • Jellyfin - video streaming platform (installed because it's FOSS and seems interesting, but I rarely use it)
  • Overseerr - user-request app for video streaming platform (installed when I anticipated sharing my movies/shows before realizing that my ISP severely limits my upload speeds)
  • Pi-Hole - block all ads network-wide
  • Plex - primary video streaming platform
  • Radarr - download movies
  • Readarr - download books but have had better luck with Libgen on an ad-hoc basis
  • Sonarr - download shows
  • YTDL - download YT videos
  • Wireguard - VPN into the home network
[–] bagog@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

On a VPS:

  • mailcow for email for a personal domain

On home network:

  • unraid server as a local fileserver for backups and media (repurposed from an i5 2500k with a bunch of drives added)
  • unraid server hosts a bunch of containers -- plex -- jellyfin -- *arr apps

Edit: and hoping to play around with hosting a lemmy server in the next few days

Have a PC in the basement acting as a server.

  • Microk8s on Ubuntu Server
  • Custom-written experimental NodeJS app to help when playing D&D
  • Keycloak to act as an IDP
  • Cloudflare tunnel to receive traffic
  • Valheim server (temporarily -- I moved this back to local)
  • Wiki.js
[–] hebocon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

In addition to the standard complement of jellyfin etc. I run a Docker OS on Google's free tier with Gotify along with Uptime Kuma running on a tiny x86 computer accessed via a Cloudflare tunnel. Discord watches the watcher and notifies me if Gotify goes down!

It's a great combo. All reverse proxying is handled by HAProxy on my pfsense router.

[–] hebocon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

In addition to the standard complement of jellyfin etc. I run a Docker OS on Google's free tier with Gotify along with Uptime Kuma running on a tiny x86 computer accessed via a Cloudflare tunnel. Discord watches the watcher and notifies me if Gotify goes down!

It's a great combo. All reverse proxying is handled by HAProxy on my pfsense router.

[–] bruj0@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I self-host in a rented server. I wrote about my adventures here: https://github.com/bruj0/ProxmoxIPv6

[–] mosjek@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Hardware:

  • CPU: 2x Intel Xeon E5-2695v4
  • RAM: 256GB ECC
  • Storage: 4x256GB Enterprise SSD, 4x2TB SSD (ZFS Striped Mirror)

Software:

  • pfSense
  • Proxmox
  • k3s with Flux and Longhorn
  • Gitea
  • Woodpecker
  • UniFi
  • FreshRSS
  • Grafana / Loki
  • Ntfy
  • Paperless-ngx
  • Vaultwarden
  • Minio
  • Syncthing

I purchased the server used. The services are mostly running in a virtualized cluster, which is absolutely oversized for the current tasks. However, it has motivated me to learn Kubernetes and the power consumption is within my limits.

[–] blotz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
  • Mail server
  • Bitwarden (vaultwarden)
  • Git server (apache + basic git server. no git frontend)

All on dedicated cloud servers for simplicity and security.

Im looking at selfhostihng on my own hardware again. Im considering the following

  • lemmy instance
  • proxmox with gpu
  • Some sort of production database
[–] CodeFlinger@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Main Server - 37 Containers, 4 VMs

  • Media: Plex, Audiobookshelf, along with everything for a complete *arr stack
  • Network: Cloudflared, NginxProxyManager, Tailscale, Gluetun (for *arrs)
  • Other: Authelia, OpenVSCode, Filebrowser, SFTPGo, Bitcoin Node to support the network
  • VMs: Parrot, Windows 11 for local and remote gaming, Windows 3.11 (because why not), currently spun up myNode to see if I want to explore hosting a Bitcoin Ligtning Node

Smarthome Server - OptiPlex 3050

  • Containers: mqtt, NodeRed, zigbee2mqtt, homebridge, tailscale, pihole (paired with my phone usually)
  • VM: HomeAssistant

Testing Server - OptiPlex 7060
Lately been testing and making stuff using linuxserver/docker-baseimage-kasmvnc.

  • Arduino-IDE running in a container - with USB hotswap.
  • Featherwallet and Electrumwallet (I use a HW-Wallet for HODL).
  • Lutris, got it working with Hearthstone, but didn't really have a use for it.
  • Nomachine in kasmvnc, to (somewhat) smoothly access my VMs through the webbrowser when I just need something fast.
    Linuxserver Firefox.

XMR Mining Server - Old tired HP SFF
Basicly everything from this guide by seth for privacy; monerod, p2pool, tor, watchtower, and a python-webserver to expose metrics/api.

[–] root@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I have a (beefy specd) Intel NUC that's running Proxmox. A few of the VMs mount to my RS1221+ for things like media (Jellyfin), etc.

On Proxmox I run

  • Jellyfin (media server)
  • Home Assistant (home automation)
  • PiHole (DNS)
  • Ansible (For keeping everything up to date and applying bulk actions)
  • NGINX Proxy Manager (so I can access things locally with a nice URL)
  • VM to host my Discord bots
  • Whoogle (Search engine)
  • AMP game server

Probably missing a few, but that's the jist

[–] rarkgrames@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hi, I have a few bits and pieces.

Currently I have:

Pi Zero running pi-hole

A Mac mini running overseer on Linux

Another Mac mini that I use for dev work that’s also running sonarr, radarr, bazarr, plex and Hoobs under MacOS

A Dell R170 running a number of VMs (windows and Linux) that host a couple of websites , and a load balancer on proxmox.

Things are a bit spread out where I sometimes just had to use the hardware I had to hand but it all works together somehow.

Edit: I've also just spun up a MediaWiki for me and my colleagues to use to store useful snippets of code etc. in a central place. Although I know my colleagues, they'll use it once and then it'll be abandoned :D

Minecraft server, a pingvin share site for myself, tubearchivist, pihole, pivpn, 25mb video compressor with a script and incrontab along with the same thing but for GIFs. I think that's most of the list

[–] iluminae@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ceph (rbd,s3) on 4 poweredges.

Nomad, Consul servers running in a 3 node raft on some ARM SBCs.

Nomad clients on 2 poweredges and 3 arm SBCs running:

  • s3 CSI (media and large file storage is all on s3)
  • rbd CSI (all the stateful jobs have rbd block devices)
  • NATS cluster with Jetstream to enable MQTT support
  • mosquito mqtt (had to run mosquito for mqtt v5)
  • mosquito<->nats bridge (via benthos)
  • nodered (just for easy Google home integration)
  • zwavejs2mqtt
  • zigbee2mqtt
  • frigate (can only talk mqtt v5 so had to run mosquito just for this)
  • grafana
  • gotify
  • gitea
  • drone CI
  • postgresql
  • BitTorrent client
  • ceph rgw s3 gateways
  • NATS based home automation lambdas - I wrote these in go
  • Adguard home
  • traefik as main ingress
  • Prometheus
  • prom node exporter
  • jellyfin
  • jackett
  • a program I wrote that manages torznab->acquisiton->s3 lifecycle
  • a website
  • wireguard servers

And that is just in the server room - I also have more like the 3d printer and CNC machine controllers etc.

[–] dreamfinder@dis.ney.ink 2 points 1 year ago

I have a few raspberry pis, running Home Assistant, Unifi controller, PiHole... Otherwise i have DigitalOcean droplets, one hosts my Lemmy instance, and another hosts a couple of side project websites (my wife's freelance business, and some other stuff)

I'm hosting Trillium Note for my personal note taking.

[–] owatnext@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I have a meager ds418play with 2x4tb drives set up with RAID. I forget what it's called, but it is one drive redundancy, 1:1. I run Plex and an FTP server on it for file storage.

[–] hellmo_luciferrari@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My "Home Lab" loosely put, is an amalgamation of this:

Docker and Docker Compose installed on Ubuntu on a Dell PowerEdge 530 and on that docker host I have: -Portainer

-Nginx Proxy Manager

-Cloudflare Dynamic DNS

-Chromium

-Dozzle

-Gluetun

-Homarr

-Jellyfin

-Kanboard

-Komga

-Radarr

-Lidarr

-Sonarr

-Navodrome

-netbooyxyz (work in progress)

-Prowlarr

-qBittorrent

-Pairdrop

-Resilio-Sync

-Searxng

-Siganl CLI container for alerts

-Uptime Kuma

-VSCode

-WikiJS

-Watchtower

On one of my Pi's:

-Pihole

-Pialert

-fail2ban

-PIVPN

-Unbound

The weakest part of my setup arguably is between my storage "solution" and my networking setup.

Storage is just a bunch of large drives in the Dell. Next upgrade is a new router solution, but still use my current router for a wireless access point strictly for IOT and putting my other devices on separate VLANs.

I was thinking about getting a Nextcloud going, but not sure I want to as of right now.

[–] joshthetechie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I used to host a ton of stuff, now I just host my WordPress site on Linode.

I have toyed with the idea of selfhosting a Lemmy server, but that's a project for another day.

[–] innercitadel@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

VPS (Ubuntu on 4 virtual cores, 10GB ram, 100GB NVME)

  • Mediawiki with semantic mediawiki and various plug-ins and 650 pages
  • Orthantic and OHIF (radiology images)
  • Moodle (docker)

Cloud container provider (different to above VPS provider)

  • 3 x mediawiki sites

Homelab (Unraid on i7 4790, 16gb RAM, 3 x 10TB HDD, 4TB external disk, no cache disk yet, RTX 3070, fractal define 7 mid tower)

  • Plex
  • Komga (comics)
  • Audiobookshelf
  • Kavita and Calibre (books)
  • Photoview (family photos)
  • Filebrowser (work)
  • Cloudflared (zero trust tunnels)
  • Heimdall (dashboard)
  • Krusader
  • Plugins: docker compose manager, docker patch, unassigned devices

Have ordered an N100 mini PC from aliexpress with plans of installing OPNsense and running a couple VMs on it.

My gaming computer for interest, not currently hosting anything: 5800X3D, 7900XTX, 32GB ram, 2TB NVME, 2TB SSD, 4TB HDD, fractal meshify midbtower case.

I also have a Pi 4 and a Pi 3 that I don't have any use for currently. Open to ideas. I already run Adguard on phone and Ublock origin on desktop browser, and don't see any current use for Pihole.

[–] freddy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I use proxmox on my server. I virtualize opnsense (with adguard and wireguard), jellyfin, unifi, home assistant, and syncthing.

I have a synology ds220j w/ 2x10tb

Hardware: Intel 12100, 32gb ram, i350-t4 network card TP link TL-SG108E switch

I'm going to move opnsense to a dedicated box eventually

[–] ulu_mulu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hello :)

I'm not really a "selfhoster" but I thought I'd present myself anyway since you asked :D

I do a little bit of it but only for personal use, I don't have the skills to selfhost for public use.

I have Gitea, Planka, Dokuwiki, Apache+MariaDB, and self-compiled World of Warcraft server emulators (TrinityCore, CMangos and AzerothCore).

[–] maya329@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Currently self-hosting on an old HP Z600 I bought second hand with the following specs:

CPU β€” 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5660 @ 2.80GHz RAM β€” 96GB ECC DDR3 (6*16GB) Disks β€” 4TB HDD for Ubuntu, 10TB HDD for NextCloud and 2TB Sata SSD for Docker

For services, I'm currently running the following:

Docker

Portainer β€” CF Tunnel

FreshRSS β€” CF Tunnel

ArchiveBox β€” CF Tunnel

Adguard Home β€” Local

2x Uptime Kuma β€” CF Tunnel

LinkAce β€” CF Tunnel

TheLounge β€” CF Tunnel

Watchtower β€” Local

#For public access dockers

Feedropolis

Mirotalk SFU

FiveFilters RSS

Taiga

2x Mattermost Servers

8x Wordpress Staging Sites

1x Wordpress Dev Sites

For ubuntu, I'm running a few services and apps like:

ScreamingFrog

9 sites using LAMP stack

Aria2c with AriaNG

NextCloud

Plex

4x WebHooks server for communities

Couple of API end points using Apache reverse proxy

OpenVPN

CrowdSec

[–] maya329@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Currently self-hosting on an old HP Z600 I bought second hand with the following specs:

CPU β€” 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5660 @ 2.80GHz RAM β€” 96GB ECC DDR3 (6*16GB) Disks β€” 4TB HDD for Ubuntu, 10TB HDD for NextCloud and 2TB Sata SSD for Docker

For services, I'm currently running the following:

Docker

Portainer β€” CF Tunnel

FreshRSS β€” CF Tunnel

ArchiveBox β€” CF Tunnel

Adguard Home β€” Local

2x Uptime Kuma β€” CF Tunnel

LinkAce β€” CF Tunnel

TheLounge β€” CF Tunnel

Watchtower β€” Local

#For public access dockers

Feedropolis

Mirotalk SFU

FiveFilters RSS

Taiga

2x Mattermost Servers

8x Wordpress Staging Sites

1x Wordpress Dev Sites

For ubuntu, I'm running a few services and apps like:

ScreamingFrog

9 sites using LAMP stack

Aria2c with AriaNG

NextCloud

Plex

4x WebHooks server for communities

Couple of API end points using Apache reverse proxy

OpenVPN

CrowdSec

[–] maya329@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Currently self-hosting on an old HP Z600 I bought second hand with the following specs:

CPU β€” 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5660 @ 2.80GHz RAM β€” 96GB ECC DDR3 (6*16GB) Disks β€” 4TB HDD for Ubuntu, 10TB HDD for NextCloud and 2TB Sata SSD for Docker

For services, I'm currently running the following:

##Docker Portainer β€” CF Tunnel FreshRSS β€” CF Tunnel ArchiveBox β€” CF Tunnel Adguard Home β€” Local 2x Uptime Kuma β€” CF Tunnel LinkAce β€” CF Tunnel TheLounge β€” CF Tunnel Watchtower β€” Local

###For public access dockers Feedropolis Mirotalk SFU FiveFilters RSS Taiga 2x Mattermost Servers 8x Wordpress Staging Sites 1x Wordpress Dev Sites

##For ubuntu, I'm running a few services and apps like: ScreamingFrog 9 sites using LAMP stack Aria2c with AriaNG NextCloud Plex 4x WebHooks server for communities Couple of API end points using Apache reverse proxy OpenVPN CrowdSec

Ohh, I'd love to share.

Running most services as docker/ kubernetes containers.

Currently running Plex (previously Jellyfin, maybe will switch back) for media streaming.

Grocy for food/task/family organisation (grocery list and so forth)

Piehole for home ad-blocker and proxy πŸ™ŒπŸ»πŸ™ŒπŸ»πŸ™ŒπŸ»

[–] Gubb@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

3 Proxmox nodes 2 SFF Dell Optiplex (i5 with 32gb RAM) 1 Nuc (i7 with 64gb RAM)

1 Truenas host (old gaming PC i5 with 64gb RAM and 8TB ZFS pool

pfSense appliance for firewall

  • Pi-Hole
  • Vaultwarden
  • Immich
  • Paperless-ngx
  • InfluxDB + Grafana
  • Ansible
  • Nextcloud
  • Wireguard
  • UptimeKuma
  • Homeassiatant
  • Homepage
  • Octoprint
[–] iruga@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Hi everyone! I’m a big fan of self hosting :)

I have a dedicated server in Hetzner

  • Intel Core i7-8700
  • 2x SSD M.2 NVMe 1 TB
  • 4x RAM 32768 MB DDR4

Been running it for almost a year without any issues. I host several things there. I’m using caprover.com for managing my deployments since I contributed on the project a few years ago and it’s so easy to get started.

Some of the things I host there:

  • nextcloud
  • MySQL
  • Postgres
  • privatebin
  • some Hasura instances
  • Kuma (for monitoring)
  • Browserless Chrome (which I use for web scrapping)
  • Plausible (analytics)
  • A private Ragnarok Online Server

I have setup a cron job that dumps my all of my databases (Postgres and MySQL) to my Google drive every midnight.

Hope this can help as inspiration for anyone else. Cheers!

[–] tinysalamander@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I see people listing things I've never heard about...I thought I had spent a considerable amount of time on the old sub and knew stuff. Guess I gotta hit the books.

Right now though I'm hosting everything on a 2012 Mac Mini that's running Proxmox.

Been using these programs for awhile now:

  • Photoprism
  • wireguard
  • web blog testing instance while the live one lives on linode
  • plex
  • filebrowser
  • pi-hole
  • homepage

Nothing crazy but cool stuff to learn in my day to day. I want more hardware but I'm about to buy a house. It's crazy how much I'm throwing at an 11 year old computer and it's handling it all quite well.

[–] theolodger@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Original comment overwritten

A few things I haven't seen in the comments which I'm really happy with are:

  • Vikunja
  • Scrutiny
  • Kimai

Other things which were mentioned already:

  • Searx-ng
  • Gitea
  • Paperless-ngx
  • Calibre-web
  • Matrix (synapse)
  • Nextcloud
  • Jellyfin
  • Uptime Kuma
  • Mealie
  • FreshRSS
  • Vaultwarden
  • Photoprism

All running in docker containers behind a caddy proxy.

[–] mrclark@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

First post in the world of Lemmy! Woot! Another Reddit escapee. I can't for the life of me understand the management team at Reddit. I get that they need to make money and that they're pissed off at the AI guys for pilfering their data but the people who contribute to the subreddits and moderate them for free are why Reddit is such a success. Why would you screw them over? It's so short sited. If you're pissed at OpenAI then talk to them and figure out how they can pay for your API access but don't screw the people that made you a success. They can afford to spend a little of the VC/Microsoft money. Okay...off the soap box now.....

Up until very recently I was running all my services on a HP DL380 Gen9 server. Beautiful server but sucks back electricity like a drunk on New Years Eve and is way too noisy for my office. Purchased 4 different Tiny PCs (3 Lenovos and 1 Dell).

One Lenovo (AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 2200GE with 32GB RAM) is running RockyLinux with Docker with 20+ containers currently running.

  • "Sweden Services" - SABnzbd, Sonarr, Radarr and Lidarr
  • Tools - IT-Tools, Pairdrop, CyberChef and Paperless NGX
  • Homelab services - Portainer, Dozzle and Nginx Proxy Manager
  • Info - FreshRSS
  • Media - Plex, Audiobookshelf and Navidrome

I'm constantly playing with different containers - adding, removing, etc. I did try making the switch to Podman as I like the idea of rootless containers but could not for the life of me get things like NFS shares and Portainer integration working and was spending way too much time fighting with it. Will probably try again in the near future.

Then the other 3 Tiny PCs are running XCP-NG with various VMs including my Xen Orchestra, Kali, a couple Windows machines (usually off), Tailscale gateway box and a few others. Again, mostly for testing things out.

Using OpnSense as my firewall. Have a TrueNAS system sharing files and another small Rockstor NAS also.

Looking forward to the community here. Thanks.

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